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<p>Even if you care about search engine optimization, your WordPress site will quite likely still have<br />
potentials for an even better optimization. One very interesting area is regarding the many archives<br />
of WordPress, which are feared by some because of their potential to create internal duplicate<br />
content. In the best case, if a search engine finds the same pieces of content on several pages of<br />
a site, many of these pages will be ignored. In the worst case the recent algorithmic updates of<br />
Google (aka ‘Panda update’) make the situation much worse: if a site contains many such weak pages<br />
Google might decide to derank the complete site. Either case is undesirable. A very straightforward<br />
approach to deal with this is to make your WordPress archives as individual as possible. The basic<br />
steps to do this are shown in the article <a href="http://www.linkstrasse.de/en/individualize-wordpress" title="How to make improve the presentation of your content" rel="nofollow ugc">Five WordPress tricks for individualized content</a> .</p>
<p>SEO Content Control is the dashboard to help you with this kind of ‘Panda’ issues. It helps you to<br />
keep track, which of your posts have too little content, and shows, where an excerpt or a meta description<br />
is missing. You get it all at a glance in a neat summary with red, yellow and green colors.</p>
<p>SEO Content Control will be your tool to get rid of poor pieces of content. Your users will<br />
find your blog more attractive, and the search engines as well. Just try it out!</p>
<h4>Special Thanks & Credits</h4>
<p>Even though the plugin is brand new it got already important feedback.</p>
<h4>Thanks</h4>
<ul>
<li>Thanks to <a href="http://www.dirks-computerecke.de" rel="nofollow ugc">Dirk Löbe</a> for pointing out PHP5.x issues</li>
</ul>


SEO Content Control

SEO Content Control helps to identify and clean up various sorts of weak content, in order to improve a site's quality and to rank better.

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<h4>About</h4>
<p>With this lightweight plugin you can add a meta description to your website.</p>
<p>The meta description summarizes the content of a post or page.</p>
<p>Search engines such as Google and Bing will use the meta description when displaying search results.</p>
<p>Add a meta description only for your homepage, or for each individual post and page.</p>
<p>This plugin also supports WooCommerce products, product categories and tags.</p>
<h4>How to use</h4>
<p>After installation go to the settings page. This page is located at Settings > Meta description.</p>
<p>More info about using this plugin is displayed there as well.</p>
<h4>Have a question?</h4>
<p>Please take a look at the FAQ section.</p>
<h4>Translation</h4>
<p>Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs.</p>
<p>More <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/very-simple-meta-description" rel="nofollow ugc">translations</a> are very welcome!</p>
<p>The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference.</p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>Without help and support from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so thank you!</p>


VS Meta Description

it's really foolish to stick a single meta description in the sitewide header template. that's duplicate content so google knows immediately it's poor quality. it will do more harm than good to your rankings.

1 description duplicated sitewide = bad seo

Simple plugin doing exactly what it is supposed to without bloat. 
Maybe a button could be added to the Default Open Graph Image field, to select the image directly from the library instead of pasting its URL.

Works perfectly

The plugin works perfectly, it is extremely small (8kb zipped), which is a big plus, and the developer is super nice, very responsive and simply awesome.

Thanks a million,
Nick.

A 5 star plugin

Its perfect

With this lightweight plugin you can add a meta description to your website.

SEO Content Control vs VS Meta Description